October 18, 2008

New Xray for Worlds?

With the IFMAR 1:10 Electric Onroad World Championships less than a month away many of the leading manufacturers have been conducting private testing at the RCS track in Thailand as they make final preparations for the bi-annual event. At last weekend’s Euro Touring Series race in German we spoke with former European Champion Ronald Volker who had just returned from a successful test in Bangkok while Pre-Worlds winner Viktor Wilck and team-mates Jilles Groskamp & Marc Rheinard told us they had just a few days to get ready before flying out to Asia together with Tamiya’s engineers to test new parts for the TRF416. The other big title challenger, Xray, was also in Bangkok this week but appeared to want to keep their WC challenger out of the public eye. Our sources in Thailand have told us that both Teemu Leino and Alex Hagberg’s cars were fitted with a number of new prototype parts which we understand are for a new car which is rumoured to be released by the Slovakian company ahead of the 2009 season. Juraj Hudy, who is the creative genius behind all Xray cars, together with Martin Hudy were on hand to support Leino & Hagberg at the test and according to our source they did not want the new parts (car?) to be seen with both drivers keeping their cars well covered up at all time. Red RC will be travelling to Thailand to bring you full coverage of the World Championships where a certain Mr. Hara could make history by adding to the 1:8 Buggy World title he won last month in the US.

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October 15, 2008

Team Shepherd low-friction belts

Team Shepherd has extended their product range with the launch of two new low-friction rubber belts for the front and the rear axles of its successful Velox 1:8 onroad car. The new belts are much softer and more flexible than the standard versions and allow the drive train to run more freely. This ensures that the engine power is efficiently transfered into speed. Although the softer belts wear faster, the extra power and decreased fuel consumption offers racers that little extra advantage.

Source: Team Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]


October 15, 2008

Gilletti wins Rd3 Italian Regionals

Raimondo Gilletti has won the third round of the Italian Regional Championship (Sicily) which was held at the LeCocoBeach track in Catania over the weekend.  Driving his Novarossi powered Team Magic G4RS, Gilletti claimed the TQ setting a new track record of 10.82 seconds.  In the final he went on to take victory from Kyosho driver Michele Perniciaro with Marco Lipuma, also driving a Kyosho, completing the podium.

Source: Cybermodel [cybermodel.it]


October 15, 2008

Mateo defends Spanish 1:10 EP title

Last weekend saw the conclusion of the Spanish 1:10 EP Touring National Championship in Toledo where reigning champion Toni Mateo successfully defended his title in the best way possible by winning the event. Finishing second to the Tamiya driver in the season finale was David Escudero who takes Vice-Champion honours. David Martín completed the podium in Toledo ahead Jordi Padró who claims third spot in the final standings.


October 14, 2008

Tosolini wins US Fuel Sedan Nationals

Chris Tosolini has won the 2008 ROAR Fuel Sedan Nationals which took place at the Fort Myers track in Florida over the weekend.  With defending Champion Barry Baker, who won the title in ’07 with Xray, abscent this year following his departure from Team Magic, it was all to play for.  Once again it was the super fast Paul Lemeiux, who came so close to winning the Worlds earlier this year, that took the TQ honours with his Xray NT1.  Next to him on the grid was Serpent’s Paolo Morganti but in the one hour final the leading qualifiers would hit trouble allowing Tosolini’s Sirio powered Kyosho to take the win and regain the title he won in 2006 when he debuted Serpent’s new 720.  Second spot went to Josh Cyrul while Bobby Flack completed the podium.

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October 13, 2008

Edam enter 1:10 Nitro market

Taiwanese company Edam, who last year entered the 1:8 Onroad market with its Razor, are about to enter the 1:10 market with a new nitro car which will be officially unveiled at the iHobby Expo in the US later this week.  For now Edam have just released a CAD image of the new car but pictures of the final production model should be available in the next 24 hours.  More news to follow.

Source: Edam [edam.com.tw]


October 12, 2008

Rheinard & Stocker victorious at ETS Rd1

Marc Rheinard and Alexander Stocker are the first winners of the 2008/2009 Much More backed Euro Touring Series, winning the opening round in Kastellaun, Germany after the fight for top honours went down to the third A Main in both categories. With a win each the Modified class was between Tamiya team-mate Rheinard and Jilles Groskamp.  Having TQ’d the event and the only driver to record 29 laps, the former World Champion looked like he had victory in the bag after Leg 1 but defending ETS champion Groskamp set a blistering pace in Leg 2 recording the fastest lap of the weekend on his way to a thrilling victory over Rheinard.  This set up a head to head battle for Leg 3.

View the full coverage on the ETS site here.


October 11, 2008

Rheinard tops ETS qualifying

Marc Rheinard is proving to be the quickest man in the qualifying for Round 1 of the Much More backed Euro Touring Series which is taking place this weekend in Kastellaun, Germany.  The current European Champion heads the overnight qualification ranking from team-mate & defending ETS Champion Jilles Groskamp. In Pro Stock Daniel Wohlgemuth has already secured TQ for Sunday evenings finals by dominating proceedings.

Go to the ETS site to see our complete coverage


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